Examples of oblique

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The selection of the preposition in the oblique argument is dependent on the verb used.
Only the collective workshop throws some oblique light upon this.
The parallel mylonitic fabric transects a mineral lineation in the bleached variegated marble at an oblique angle.
Description of normal, glancing and oblique impacts respectively. 1 are, respectively, the projectile and target speeds.
Also, the required computational domain size is reduced in comparison with the case of an oblique impinging shock.
Secondly a class of oblique wave with frequency comparable with that of the two-dimensional mode is another cause of breakdown.
The rare oblique facial cleft, extending through the upper lip to the eye results from defective fusion between lateral and medial swellings.
In this paper, a presentation of significant experimental results obtained from an extensive study of cavity pressure at vertical and oblique entry will be made.
Compared to the direct anteroposterior diameter at this level, the oblique diameter is the most accommodating dimension for the wider shoulders to pass through.
The exposed section is slightly oblique in the direction of progradation, lowering the real dip of clinoforms.
The incisal edges of the lateral incisors have been filed to make them straight but oblique, rising mesially.
If the arterial duct was not well visualized in the lateral projection, cineangiography was repeated in the 30° right anterior oblique projection.
In 23 of these 36 patients, additional aortograms were obtained in the right and left anterior oblique views.
Of all three, the oblique and vertical image received the most attention at the workshop.
Merciless to small absurdities, he was often oblique and diffident on the big issues.
Unlike the full pronoun, the suffix was used to represent all oblique cases and both 2nd and 3rd persons.
Moreover, both constructions allow the agent to be realized as an instrumental oblique.
The logical subject is thus said to be ' demoted ' to an oblique, whereas the logical object is ' promoted ' to subject.
The main formal difference between the oblique mood and the compound forms for the indicative mood is the obligatory absence of the auxiliary verb.
The strategies for expressing oblique agents will tend to reflect the general treatment of optional dependents that are selected thematically, but not strictly subcategorized for.
The directional oblique corresponds to the secondary predicate in the motion event, which is the superordinate event.
When the oblique result\\direction is expressed with a particle, the two constructions show a difference in word order.
Each element is obligatory, and the word order is fixed, even when the oblique is expressed as a verbal particle.
In the end the conclusions are oblique and suggestions of the likely way forward are tentative - as they must be.
There is now only one term that depends on the dissipative properties of the plasma, while for the oblique case we had two such terms.
We also realize that numerical techniques are extremely important in numerical studies of oblique penetration.
However, for the case of oblique propagation no stabilizing effect is found to be associated with the magnetic field.
In oblique cases, there is no relationship to referentiality.
Influence of a large oblique incident angle on energetic protons accelerated from solid density plasmas by ultraintense laser pulses.
When comparing results between studies,6 the three-field oblique plan gave the lowest dose to the bladder in both empty and full situations.
To that extent, they are also an oblique criticism of government or of misgovernment.
The occurrences of this item were also checked, together with other verbs taking the oblique form me or to me as the experiencer.
The focus is on the gerunds in oblique environments, since these are the constructions that undergo significant changes in the course of the period examined.
Designated as oblique, side-by-side or frontal, these groupings account for the vast majority of cases.
The aortogram was performed during routine preoperative cardiac catheterization in >45° caudocranial and 20-30°, left anterior oblique view.
In 23 of 36 patients, we obtained additional aortograms in right and left anterior oblique views.
A crude estimate based on oblique views would suggest that the former possibility is closely realized, but the evidence is not conclusive.
The holotype is illustrated in 'lateral microscope view', that is, in an oblique lateral-aboral view.
In summary, it can be stated that a thrust regime changed progressively to an oblique thrust and then a strikeslip regime.
At the end of the section, the formation and the palaeostress distribution of normal and strike-slip-oblique thrust faults will be discussed.
However, in some domains, recrystallized grains form a second foliation oblique to the main foliation indicating a dextral sense of shear.
Each wedge exhibits oblique clinoforms and about 5 m of relief.
Their interest in philosophical or foundational issues was only oblique, and certainly not systematic.
Difference images were generated by subtracting the optical responses to the or thogonal pairs of cardinal and oblique gratings.
The origin of the oblique effect examined with pattern adaptation and masking.
If adaptation had decreased the response to line-ends, observers should have been biased towards seeing oblique motion.
The plane of section is oblique, running from medial-anterior to lateral-posterior.
The photographs are often very striking, particularly some of the aerial obliques taken in unusual lighting conditions.
True obliques also seem to have been extracted this way, though the prefix *sis sometimes followed by an additional prefix.
The resulting plan had five fields; posterior, two laterals and two anterior obliques.
The treatment plan "class solution" beam arrangement was then changed to lateral fields, with two anterior obliques and a posterior field, without detrimentally affecting plan dose distribution.
In his theory, indirect objects are on a par with direct objects and subjects in being direct functions ; they thus stand in opposition to obliques which are indirect functions.
The contrast is particularly striking with respect to those referents introduced as obliques, which rarely persist at all, typically serving as mere 'props' rather than major participants within the text.
They construct a series of models in which vertical and oblique cultural transmission are followed by selection on the pheno-genotypes.
The format is unusual, even disappointing on the part of the author, whose style of approach has always been oblique and fragmentary.
At the equinox, the pattern of light and shade remains indiscriminate but is less strident and more oblique.
All of them shed a direct or oblique light on the main themes of this project.
Most cases with this type of anatomy have a right oblique or side-by-side relationship of the great arteries.
They always included extensive use of original, oblique air photos.
He has rather marked fronto-occipital modification of the tabular oblique variety.
Even rewards such as these were a shade oblique for those who expected a direct return upon money invested.
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